Penn and Teller - Creationism part 1

No copyright infringement intended. It's just nice to have a little comedy in the debunking of creationism :)

Remember that this episode is from 2003, so before the Dover trials, the inclusion of intelligent design into the school systems in Louisiana, etc.

As I periodically respond to the creationist spam I've been getting, I'll post the links to those responses here:

http://thoughtsofcrystaleye736.blogspot.com/2012/02/everybody-loves-fake-war....

http://thoughtsofcrystaleye736.blogspot.com/2012/02/round-two-i-found-copy-pa...

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[CrystalEye736]

@beigelycheenut don't forget that 16% of public school SCIENCE teachers are young earth creationists, who even though they are required by law to teach it they purposely teach it badly in such a way as to instill doubt. Then there are the teachers that are afraid to teach it properly for fear of complaints and gloss over it. Religion may not be the sole culprit, but it definitely deserves a huge chunk of the blame

[CrystalEye736]

@jackiedegracia I get you're angry, but you need to get your racial slurs off my video, or I'll do it for you. Attempting to call me out is one thing, but I wont have them for shock value and trolling

[CrystalEye736]

@jackiedegracia umm, the only reason I used that word was in response to another user who used it to justify the ridiculously high numbers of creationists in the US (notice the quotation marks?)

[CrystalEye736]

@beigelycheenut also note that I never blamed it on the rednecks, 46% is far too high a number. And if there are "urban" areas with shit education that havent heard of evolution its because the science teachers are not following the curriculum they're supposed to, because its in there, and this episode is about the assholes that are trying to get it removed so that even more people will be ignorant of the facts. It almost passed in Indiana this week, but luckily they shelved it

[USMarineRifleman0311]

creationists are america's biggest embarrasment

[NWAWskeptic]

I do not know if I can make it through this episode! These idiot creationists have my blood boiling!

[cyber151]

"there is a significant number of science professionals who are skeptical of evolution"

Well then. They arent real scientists. They are not following fact and understanding, they are choosing to "BELIEVE" something that isn't reality. Just like some theists who claim to understand their religion but barely have ever read any scripture. The difference is science is still reality where as scripture is stories told by hundreds of people, edited and rewritten by other people over thousands of years.

[cyber151]

Here is what you come down to . Science has disproved pretty much all of your "beliefs" and stories. You ignore science while reaping its benefits like medicine. Read your bible, you'd be hypocrites in the eyes of your "god". So you've decided that since so many people are waking up, looking at scientific fact and walking away from ignorance that is FAITH, that the way to get the new people in this "fad of thinking" is to kinda act like scientists to bring back your money, i mean FOLLOWERS!

[cyber151]

Theists can be annoying, but hey most will admit they are ignoring fact to have faith.

CREATIONISTS ARE INFURIATING. You pricks decide to misconstrue FACT and the scientific process with your "faith" and beliefs to make yourself sound smart.

[NoxVulpes]

@NWAWskeptic I know. Every time I hear the "just a theory" argument, it doesn't matter how many times I've heard it, I have to grit my teeth. Before they start using terms, they need to learn the damn definition!

[AKArainkit]

@Bumcrumpets We didn't evolve from apes, we share a common ancestor with apes. From what I know, we came from the Proconsul, which it's self evolved from the Notharctus. The Proconsul eventually, through isolation of gene and natural selection, turned into the Nakalipithecus and the Ouranopithecus. That's what I got so far. I haven't compleatly read this book. idk, I find it ineresting.

[AKArainkit]

@CrystalEye736 Hum, seems our state is the opposite here. In cities they teach theory of evolution, and when my cousin from the 'farms of yer' we like to call them, came over, we had to teach it to her. lol

[byteresistor]

@Bumcrumpets Theory has a completely different meaning in science.

[Bumcrumpets]

@RandomTrollAccount So these scientists use assumption to quantify their alleged findings? Awesome, so profound. So we share similar body physics and characteristics with dolphins, does that mean we cam from dolphins? Same with monkeys. No it doesn't. And if we evolved from apes, why are there still apes? Surely they would've "evolved". Didn't scientists also say the world was going to fall apart at the turn of the century? What happened? NOTHING!!! WAY TO GO SCIENCE.

[Bumcrumpets]

@RandomTrollAccount Are you for real? Whales, lol. And how did they "evolve"? Did they just decide to have their legs fall off because they couldn't be bothered to walk? Plenty of animals share the same bones and structures, and even dna, but it doesn't meanas much as you read into it. Emu's have wings but can't fly. Does this mean they used to? No. What about penguins, or cassowary's? Same again I'm afraid. Not to mention Kiwi's. When did I dismiss gravity, thermodynamics etc? I didn't.